FSD1088 Finnish National Election Study 1991

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Question text

(IF WILL CERTAINLY VOTE/WILL PROBABLY VOTE) Why do you intend to vote in these elections? Open-ended, first mention

Frequencies

Category labels Value n
Principle/Voting is a duty 1 338
Voting is a right 2 68
Habit/tradition/have always voted 3 132
Only way/small way to influence 4 100
Desire to have an influence in general 5 305
Desire to have an influence on a specific issue 6 129
Voting gives the right to criticize 7 28
Desire to vote for a particular candidate 8 72
Other reason 9 44
SYSMISS 256
Displayed frequencies are not weighted

Summary statistics

Number of valid cases 1216
Maximum 9
Minimum 1
Mean 3.90
Standard deviation 2.358

Study description in machine readable DDI-C 2.5 format

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